The Enigma of Arrival - Workshop

“Diasporing Terrains” Workshop led by Rieko Whitfield

The workshop “Diasporing Terrains” is created and led by the artist Rieko Whitfield, commissioned and curated by RCA CCA students for their final year project The Enigma of Arrival.

Rieko Whitfield’s meditation and writing workshop “Diasporing Terrains” guides participants to improvise performances for a film that will be exhibited in The Enigma of Arrival at the Royal College of Art. The basis of the film will revolve around an altar of fruits and flowers offered in the workshop – primarily as metaphors for tenderness, hope, and resilience in the alchemising of grief – to co-create alternate landscapes beyond the gates of the coloniser’s garden.


Curators: Ahwa Habeeb, Clara Lai, David Tomlinson, Hannah Dowling, Qinle Jin, Sylvia Tan, Yu Ying Chan

Artist: Rieko Whitfield